ideas from Pachita, 281, 289–91
imitating desired qualities, 344
individuality of treatments, 319–20
for invasive mother, 329–30
Mystical Cabaret, 327
for names, 332, 335, 392
need for parental love and, 349–50
for parental abuse/neglect, 331–34,
389–91
for perfectionism, 342–44
for physical illnesses, 324–26
for “possessed” persons, 334–35
psychogenealogy, 310–11
relieving guilt, 331, 341–42
requirements for, 312–14, 348–49
responsibility of, 320
role playing before parents, 327–28
roots in family tree, 305–10, 335–36
rules for advised acts, 327
for self-worth, 330, 340–41, 385–87,
391
sexual acts in, 322–24, 336–37
shifting images, 340–42
small acts prescribed for safety,
320–22
for social neuroses, 345–46
with son Axel Cristóbal, 328–29
for suppressed feelings, 332
time saved by, 348
touching a woman’s chest, 314–16
undoing predictions, 337–40
unexpected synchronicities in,
316–19
See also psychoshamanism
psychomagical correspondence, 393–402
chewing on hair, 397–98
getting past prostitution, 399–400
giving partial fulfillment, 397
lesbian attraction to mother, 398–99
letter to absent parent, 400–401
the lost color red, 395–96
milk bath for the eyes, 396
sexual invalid, 401–2
stealing to heal the heart, 393–94
symbolic conversation, 394–95
psychoshamanism, 377
for boy in coma, 362–64
bypassing defenses and fears, 380–81
defenses and the need for, 351–54
examples of, 372–80
healer’s state during, 380
imagination in, 382, 384
magical setting for, 371
for Moebius, 364–66
operating in another’s name, 370–71
operating on the phantom body, 371–72
power of the “now” in, 380, 381–82
superstition eliminated from, 370
for woman abused by priest, 358–59
See also initiatory massage;
psychomagic
puppets
changes due to, 93–95
of family members, 93, 94
learning to make, 92–93
making after Stella, 110
of Nicanor Parra, 96
of Racz, 111–12
Roncal’s dance, 138–39
show of Lorca play, 125
TEUCH puppet theater, 140–42
TEUC puppet theater, 153
Racz, André (painter), 111–12
Rebbe, 11–12, 20–21, 37, 50, 60–62,
plate 11
Rialland, Chantal (writer), 335–36
Rogelio, Don (Rabid Healer), 299–300
Roncal, Virginia (dancer), 138–39
Sabina, María, 235, 266
Said, Don Carlos (healer), 300–302
Santiago de Chile (pantomime), 245
shamanism
Castaneda’s, 262–65
charlatans, 293–302
Ichazo’s, 252–62
machis, 282, 355, 356–58
move to psychoshamanism from,
358–59
Pachita’s folk magic healing, 269–93
superstition needed for, 289
See also magic; psychoshamanism
Soledad (healer), 297–99
Takata, Ejo, 196–98, 215, 247–51, 249
Tarot
decision to charge for readings, 303–5
Lefevre’s deck, 240
meaning of Tocopilla and, 1–2
Strength image stolen from library, 3
theater
with Alejandro Flores, 153–60
art of theatrical advice, 194–95
awareness due to, 136–37
circus clown stint, 146–53
civil holiness, 143–45
dance performances seen, 137–39
dispensing with actors, audience, and
building, 180, 182
dissatisfaction with realism, 160–61
effectiveness vs. perfection, 154, 156, 157
ephemeral panics, 182–94
firefighter’s burial and, 130–33, 132
with Marceau, 175–76, 178, 180
mime, 162, 165, 175–80, 244
performers in Tocopilla, 128–30
seizure witnessed and, 133–34
singing Chinese Prince and, 134–36
studying emotions, 161
study with Decroux, 173–75
teaching, 161–62
TEUCH puppet theater, 140–42
TEUC puppet theater, 153
Tocopilla, plate 3
childhood house, 5
cultural richness in, 30
meaning of, 1–2, 219–20
performers visiting, 128–30
Toño, Don (healer), 297
Topor, 164, 189, 208
trickery, sacred, 239, 280
Troika, 262–63, 265
Trumbley, Valérie (wife), 179, 303
Uthoff, Ernst (dancer), 138
Varin, Stella Díaz (poet), 96–109
“Viper, The” (poem), 95, 100–101
youth in Santiago
address book tossed, 125, 171–72, 208
ambivalence about leaving, 165
body felt as an alien, 63–64
body seen as an enemy, 76–77
bullied at school, 46, 48–49
burning of family house, 165–68
at Cereceda sisters’ home, 89–93